Janissy wrote:
bully_on_speed wrote:
i want to time travel back to the fiftys. women back then were so much easier to deal with. pre womens lib. they understood looking femine isnt necessiarly a bad thing. none of this im busy crap at least they were honest
What absolute nonsense. Ask your grandparents. The "I'm busy" code (and all other codes) pre-dates women's lib and actually was used more extensively back then. Because women were required to be "feminine", they had to be a lot more careful to never come acrosss as (female dog) which means they often had to be
less honest. My mother, who dated during the 50's and used these codes out of necessity as did all girls, often told me I had it so much easier dating in the 80's. More honesty.
Not to mention that if you wanted to date women in the 50s, you had to be even more manly than you're expected to be today...
I would even go further to say that the second-wave feminism in the 60s was just as beneficial for men as it was for women, as many of the "freedoms" won by women then were removal of restrictions that honestly shouldn't have been in place to begin with, such as inequalities in employment, education, along with stopping the sexism that ran rampant in the 50s. Also it was around this time (as well as into the 70s) that safe abortion practices and a wider range of contraceptives started coming into existence, allowing women to be as sexual as they wanted to without having to worry about unwanted children. The only men that lost out on women's lib in the 60s were the men that sought to be dominating and controlling of a woman's life. And honestly, those men are dicks...
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02 Apr 2010, 9:24 am
